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Solar activity is very low. Not one of the small sunspots currently dotting the solar disk is actively flaring. As a result, the sun’s X-ray output has flatlined.

NOAA forecasters say the odds of a strong solar flare on Sept. 9th are no more than 1%. Aurora alerts, however last night strange blood red auroras were seen from Canada all the way down to the Virginia.

Red auroras are not fully understood but according to NOAA, the red auroras are caused by a crack in Earth’s magnetosphere.

Some researchers believe the red lights are linked to low energy electrons from the sun, which move too slowly to penetrate deeply into the atmosphere. When such electrons recombine with oxygen ions in the upper atmosphere, red photons are emitted.

It is noteworthy that CERN has been active around the same time. According to BPEarthwatch, CERN is responsible for the crack in Earth’s magnetosphere allowing radiation to pour in.

When the ionosphere is not being energized near peak levels from the relatively constant influx of solar wind produced during highly-active solar phases, the ionosphere weakens. We are possibly seeing positive charge components of cosmic rays energizing upper atmospheric noble gasses, if not witnessing the inverse polarity effect from ordinary auroras interacting with strong mixed influx of high-energy particles on a positively-charged region of the ionosphere, which is unusual, but is associated with a spike in powerful positive cloud-ground lightning dominating the visible atmospheric electrical regime in late summer-early autumn in the same latitude zone that can view these auroras and beyond, also associated with the mid-range phase of the transition between solstices, in terms of Northern hemispheric insolation. I would ask whether there has been a recent tendency for emergent large-scale ground inversion of telluric current linked to climate system-coupled geodynamic-solar geomagnetic variations, or due to warm, typical late summer differentially-dry sediments inducing a net negative charge gain at the front of percolating and saturating groundwater in the direction and preceding the maximum precipitation peak, in terms of attraction and generation of ground strikes. These strikes are often difficult to distinguish by large area lightning flash detection arrays between other large negative strikes, and their actual power cannot be determined through these methods, except by their relative detection strength between receivers in rather disparate places – especially where Earth curvature has a filtering effect on signal strength – that detect upper atmospheric field disruptions. Sprite detection networks detect high-energy ground strikes by implication, synchronized to clocked detected ground flashes.

Compare to the difference in how gasses are ionized and exhibit photoemission in sprites and other TLE events during powerful thunderstorms (often mistaken for UFOs); their polarity is generally positive, and produce red filaments and halos [“elves”], but when the ground-directed strikes that produce the sprite event in opposing correspondence is negatively-charged, their upward return strokes can induce upward charge/ion propagation and trigger upward negative discharges, and when these are directed at the ionosphere, are visible as green sprites (compare to typical green auroras.There are some very powerful storms at work right now.

Their activity does interact with the ionosphere, and, conversely, it has been hypothesized that cosmic rays can both nucleate could formation by ionizing aerosols and also trigger powerful ground strikes by causing a relativistic electron (or positron) cascade that attracts ions and further electrons and positrons, accelerating ions and generating further charge through many possible dynamic routes, including an increase in magnetic field strength through a conventional Hall effect due to transverse discharges or possibly a relativistic quantum Hall effect that operates locally, contributing to the development of charge separation, streamer formation/symmetry breaking in fields, and structures within clouds that may provide even greater homogeneous capacitance.The increase of cosmic ray neutron detection rates and an increase of ground strikes has been highly correlated in time series, statistically, in several studies. Electron-positron generation of gamma rays and electron-ion collision-generated X-rays, with at least some fast neutron generation, have all been detected preceding strikes and in bursts accompanying strikes and TLE events. It is still unknown whether secondary gamma ray bursts or fast neutron production accompany the lightning leader column-streamer/ground node attachment moment, which may actually contribute to the abundance of certain cosmogenic isotopes paradigmatically-relegated to a simple production through ionospheric fast neutron spallation. Perhaps we are seeing an increase in cosmic ray-induced production of boron and radiogenic carbon.

When the ionosphere is not being energized near peak levels from the relatively constant influx of solar wind produced during highly-active solar phases, the ionosphere weakens. We are possibly seeing positive-charge components of cosmic rays energizing upper atmospheric noble gasses, if not witnessing the inverse polarity effect from ordinary auroras interacting with strong mixed influx of high-energy particles on a positively-charged region of the ionosphere, which is unusual, but is associated with a spike in powerful positive cloud-ground lightning dominating the atmospheric electrical regime in late summer-early autumn in the same zone that can view these auroras. I would ask whether there has been a recent tendency for a tendency for emergent large-scale ground inversion of telluric current linked to geomagnetic changes, or due to typical late summer dry sediments producing a net negative charge at the front of percolating and saturating groundwater in the direction and preceding the maximum precipitation peak, in terms of attraction and generation of ground strikes. These strikes are often difficult to distinguish by large area lightning flash detection arrays between other large negative strikes, and their actual power cannot be determined through these methods, except by their relative detection strength between receivers in rather disparate places – especially where Earth curvature has a filtering effect on signal strength – that detect upper atmospheric field disruptions. Sprite detection networks detect high-energy ground strikes by implication, synchronized to clocked detected ground flashes. Compare to the difference in how gasses are ionized and exhibit photoemission in sprites and other TLE events during powerful thunderstorms (often mistaken for UFOs); their polarity is generally positive, and produce red filaments and halos [“elves”], but when the ground-directed strikes that produce the sprite event in opposing correspondence is negatively-charged, their upward return strokes can induce upward charge/ion propagation and trigger upward negative discharges, and when these are directed at the ionosphere, are visible as green sprites (compare to typical green auroras.

There are some very powerful storms at work right now. Their activity does interact with the ionopsphere, and, conversely, it has been hypothesized that cosmic rays can both nucleate could formation by ionizing aerosols and also trigger powerful ground strikes by causing a relativistic electron (or positron) cascade that attracts ions and further electrons and positrons, accelerating ions and generating further charge through many possible dynamic routes, including an increase in magnetic field strength through a conventional Hall effect due to transverse discharges or possibly a relativistic quantum Hall effect that operates locally, contributing to the development of charge separation, streamer formation/symmetry breaking in fields, and structures within clouds that may provide even greater homogeneous capacitance.

The increase of cosmic ray neutron detection rates and an increase of ground strikes has been highly correlated in time series, statistically, in several studies. Electron-positron generation of gamma rays and electron-ion collision-generated X-rays, with at least some fast neutron generation, have all been detected preceding strikes and in bursts accompanying strikes and TLE events. It is still unknown whether secondary gamma ray bursts or fast neutron production accompany the lightning leader column-streamer/ground node attachment moment, which may actually contribute to the abundance of certain cosmogenic isotopes paradigmatically-relegated to a simple production through ionospheric fast neutron spallation. Perhaps we are seeing an increase in cosmic ray-induced production of boron and radiogenic carbon.